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A sweeping tale of abduction, battle, and courtship played out in a universe of deities and demons, The Ramayana is familiar to virtually every Indian. Although the Sanskrit original was composed by Valmiki around the fourth century BC, poets have produced countless versions in different languages. Here, drawing on the work of an eleventh-century poet called Kamban, Narayan employs the skills of a master novelist to re-create the excitement he found in... more...
Leonard Cohen wrote the poems in Book of Longing—his first book of poetry in more than twenty years—during his five-year stay at a Zen monastery on Southern California's Mount Baldy, and in Los Angeles, Montreal, and Mumbai. This dazzling collection is enhanced by the author's playful and provocative drawings, which interact in exciting, unexpected ways on the page with poetry that is timeless, meditative, and often darkly humorous. An... more...
At the time of his death in 1962 e.e. cummings was, next to Robert
Frost, the most widely read poet in America. For this edition of
cummings's work, George Firmage has gone back to the poet's
original manuscripts to ensure the accuracy of the transcriptions.
In particular, the spatial arrangement of the typography now
conforms as precisely as possible to cummings's very specific
intentions. To the contents of the volumes published during
cummings's... more...
In a work that is uniquely comprehensive and theoretically astute,
Isobel Armstrong rescues Victorian poetry from its longstanding
sepia image as `a moralised form of romantic verse', and unearths
its often subversive critique of nineteenth-century culture and
politics.
Barry Mazur invites lovers of poetry to make a leap into mathematics. Through discussions of the role of the imagination and imagery in both poetry and mathematics, Mazur reviews the writings of the early mathematical explorers and reveals the early bafflement of these Renaissance thinkers faced with imaginary numbers. Then he shows us, step-by-step, how to begin imagining these strange mathematical objects ourselves.
The Iliad: Join Achilles at the Gates of Troy as he slays Hector to
Avenge the death of Patroclus. Here is a story of love and war,
hope and despair, and honor and glory. The recent major motion
picture Helen of Troy staring Brad Pitt proves that this epic is as
relevant today as it was twenty five hundred years ago when it was
first written. So journey back to the Trojan War with Homer and
relive the grandest adventure of all times. The Odyssey:... more...
The text of Eliot’s 1922 masterpiece is accompanied by
thorough explanatory annotations as well as by Eliot’s own knotty
notes, some of which require annotation themselves.
For ease of reading, this Norton Critical Edition presents
The Waste Land as it first appeared in the American
edition (Boni & Liveright), with Eliot’s notes at the end.
"Contexts" provides readers with invaluable materials on The
Waste Land’s sources,... more...
The definitive collection of Tolkien’s classic fairie” tales, in
the vein of The Hobbit, illustrated by Oscar winner Alan
Lee
Never before published in a single volume, Tolkien’s four
novellas (Farmer Giles of Ham, Leaf by Niggle, Smith of Wootton
Major, and Roverandom) and one book of poems (The Adventures of
Tom Bombadil) are gathered together for the first time, in a
fully illustrated volume. This new, definitive... more...
A thrilling new collection from the hugely acclaimed British poet Simon Armitage. With its vivid array of dramatic monologues, allegories, and tall tales, this absurdist, unreal exploration of modern society brings us a chorus of unique and unforgettable voices. All are welcome at this twilit, visionary carnival: the man whose wife drapes a border-curtain across the middle of the marital home; the black bear with a dark secret; the woman who oversees... more...
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